Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

If the asteroid’s path ends at Earth, NASA isn’t helpless, Fieber-Beyer said. For the first time in known history, NASA's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

NASA / Supplied So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path from ... on the asteroid Bennu and returned ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to ... OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and in 2020 collected samples of rock and dust ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero, after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...